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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Don't be Depressed

I was talking to my BFF Heather and she said she gets depressed when she reads my blog. Another friend said the same thing. I think I'm starting to get a complex. I definitely do not want people to be depressed when they read my blog. I honestly want people to be encouraged.

When I started staying home full time I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. I didn't know exactly what I should be doing or how to schedule my day. Then it hit me, if I was working a job from 8 to 5 I would be trained for it. I would at least shadow someone in my position or attend a seminar. And then of course, once I was trained I would also have some sort of continuing education to make sure I was doing my job correctly and efficiently. When you stay at home there isn't a lot of training. There aren't "classes" you can take.

Well, I just started reading books like crazy. I started reading blogs and different internet sites. I tried a hundred different things and have only recently (after 3 years of staying home) found what really works for my family. I am still learning everyday. The real icing on the cake though is that I enjoy what I do.

I only write this blog so that homemakers everywhere (and yes, even if you work outside the home you are still a homemaker), can learn some of the things that I have learned. I don't do everything. I do like to try different things and sometimes they turn out great and sometimes they turn out awful. You pretty much only see the great, or at least the half-way decent.

I think we all enjoy different things. I cannot decorate a room to save my life. I am technically challenged to say the least. I only own about 4 or 5 purses. I think I have maybe about 10 pairs of shoes. I have no idea how to accessorize an outfit.

What else can I say? I find baking bread fascinating. I love to freeze hundreds of ears of corn. Canning and gardening are exciting to me. I am weird like that, and I might tend to overdo it a bit. Of course that is why God gave me the husband I did. He reigns me in, most of the time.

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“After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”

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